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Posted by Concourse Express on Fri Jan 6 13:51:05 2012, in response to Re: OP-ED: What the Education Establishment keep ignoring about Finland's school success, posted by JayMan on Thu Jan 5 15:04:27 2012. Considering the high heritability of IQ, yeah I'd rather play the odds.While IQ is indeed highly heritable, it is less so in children, and there is evidence that the contribution to (verbal) IQ by non-shared environmental factors (i.e. environmental factors causing behavioral differences among siblings) among children and adolescents is statistically significant. In case 1 (dude with "armies of illegitimate children"), sterilization may stop him from having kids but it won't stop him from being promiscuous; he and/or his sex partners could still catch STDs, which leads to health care costs either they and/or the taxpayers have to foot. Which are far cheaper than the whole other generation he would spawn who would do much the same. Cheaper it may be, but screwed up it will be, because... He would be relieved from having to pay child support. ...of this. While it's certainly an incentive for the dude in question, it leaves the mamas and their kids up the creek (unless they have other streams which can meet the need). Worse still, I see this incentive exacerbating the absentee father dilemma, as it gives some dudes an avenue through which they can duck the responsibility of providing for their children. Discourse? Hehe, are you forgetting what LOW IQ means? Heh - no, I haven't forgotten; though I don't believe all low-IQ people are "unreachable" in this regard (though it'd certainly be more difficult, as you stated)... I would argue violent high-IQ individuals are of greater concern since they are potentially much more dangerous. Based on watching shows like World's Dumbest (Criminals) and Forensic Files, I'd say you have a point. my blog |
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